I’d never heard of Watson, but the search tool is using Ask’s retirement of Jeeves in a clever viral marketing effort.
Ask.com Is Live; Goodbye Jeeves
With the farewell to Jeeves festivities taking place today at Search Engine Strategies, Ask.com has gone live today with its new name and look.
Goodbye, SearchFox
Unfortunate for me, one of my favorite Web 2.0 applications – SearchFox RSS – is going away. I received an email from Esteban Kozak, which read:
Goodbye Granddad Pockets
My girlfriend says I have Granddad Pockets, as they are full of goodies, weighted down by a cell phone, pocket change, an enormous German keychain with tiny flashlight and USB jump drive, a wallet with an array of business and membership cards, among many other things on any given day. But soon will come a day when Granddad Pockets will be a quaint back-in-the-day memory as the world moves toward a very James Bond lifestyle.
OConnor Waves Goodbye to the Bench
The first female justice on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) announced her intention to retire from the high court in a letter to President Bush. After getting the job in 1981, the distinguished Sandra Day O’Connor leaves a vacancy for Bush’s first appointment to highest court in the land.
Hello Google Desktop Search, Goodbye Yahoo Desktop Search
Finally there’s a desktop search product that’s actually useful to me: Google Desktop. I had tried the previous version of GDS a bit …
Goodbye Mapquest
I believe you’ve met your match. More on this later–unless 50,000 other folks have written about it when I wake up. Then I won’t bother.
Web site strategy: “Buy or Goodbye”
The first popular strategy for e-business websites we are about to discuss could also be described as a “Sale Focused”.